Apr 27th, 2007
Just back from the first part of a three city, four day, six gig extravaganza – sampling the delights of the Triptich festival. First on the card tonight were locals Prinzhorn Dance School whose stripped back rock was almost too minimalist – simple described it more aptly. They were followed by the act that we [...]
Apr 26th, 2007
With my new place last weekend limited to a quick visit to our friend Neil’s exhibition opening at the Southside Studios I made up for it by getting the furthest away from Glasgow that I have been so far this weekend. A three day hill walking trip called, and after sneaking out of the office [...]
Apr 11th, 2007
With our aim of getting to the islands for Easter seemingly scuppered by a lack of accommodation (or should that be a lack of planning) Chhay and I snuck a quick visit to the closest and most accessible island on Saturday: the Isle of Bute. On arrival in Rothesay the main town that encircles a [...]
Apr 10th, 2007
On Good Friday I climbed The Cobbler (above) with some work colleagues. It is a popular series of peaks an hour north of Glasgow. Still no Munros bagged as it was only 884 m high but there were beautiful views over Loch Long (below) and Loch Lomond to be had once we reached the summit.
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Another in a long line of visitors booked in for the next few months arrived in town on Saturday night in the form of Chhay’s form colleague, & my former club mate from Brisbrane: Jasper.
We started Saturday night with a gig at Rio’s – our local diner. Devon Sproule was playing – her voice was [...]
Apr 4th, 2007
For those in the Henderson circle who haven’t already heard: Claire started with BBC Scotland this week! It is cause for much excitement within the household – not only because it is her first real job: thus giving Claire honours in our “last to join the real world” race by a healthy 4 years but [...]
Apr 1st, 2007
As part of the high powered architecture collective that is Keppie Design, Chhay was flown down to London last week for a couple of days of eating, drinking and pretending to learn about hospitals. Not wanting to be left behind Claire and I jumped on the train on Thursday night and joined her. Lugging the [...]
I have a small backlog of recording to do as I haven’t posted for a while. Keeping our new place per week close to home two weeks ago we braved light snow to walk to the much vaunted Kelvingrove Museum. We took the longer more scenic route to show our visitor the [...]